Harry Allen Smith, December 19, 1907-February 24, 1976, was an American journalist and humorist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in McLeansboro, Illinois, where he lived until the age of six. His family moved to Decatur in 1913 and then to Defiance, Ohio, finally arriving in Huntington, Indiana. It was at this point Smith dropped out of high school and began working odd jobs, eventually finding work as a journalist